BUPA

Between 2022 and 2023 BUPA is funding an online course supporting pupils’ mental health and wellbeing, through 10 bite sized learning units. We are grateful for this support, which we have been able to link with work funded by ACAMH to provide a coherent package of support for teachers.

Charity of Sir Richard Whittington and The Mercers’ Charitable Foundation Trust

The charity is funding a series of online modules to support teachers in increasing their knowledge of decolonising and diversifying the curriculum. Across the modules, teachers and leaders strengthen their understanding of delivering a curriculum that fosters a sense of belonging and deepens pupil knowledge.

Between 2019 and 2021, the Mercers Charitable Foundation Trust generously provided funding for the design and pilot of a Chartered Teacher programme for school leaders. Celebrating the expertise of teachers and recognising their knowledge and the

formal accreditation of Chartered Status.The learning and development of each participant will benefit the education of thousands of students, colleagues, and the wider community.

The Mercers Charitable Foundation also supported the establishment of the Chartered College of Teaching by providing funding in 2015 to set up operations, recruit the Founding Directors and establish the initial governance structures.

Helen Hamlyn Trust

From 2022 the Helen Hamlyn Trust is kindly providing multi-year funding for an exciting project to rethink curriculum and design for the future. We also benefited in 2019 and 2020 from support for three other projects:

– ‘Encouraging creativity and independent remote learning through a non-digital offer’ project. Arts and remote learning compact guides.

– Teach Together, a free text messaging service connecting teachers to support their wellbeing during the 2020 lockdown. TeachTogether sent stories from teachers, evidence-based wellbeing advice and links to valuable activities every week.

– Membership growth and engagement through teacher-led network events, a programme of webinars for early career teachers, a campaign for student teachers to convert to paying NQT.

Nord Anglia Education

Between 2019 and 2023, Nord Anglia Education have generously provided funding to support the Chartered College to celebrate, support and connect teachers, including through helping them to engage with research and helping them to access a range of professional learning and collaboration opportunities. In 2019 Nord Anglia Education also funded the International Teacher CPD Report report.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Paul Hamlyn Foundation has generously committed to support the long-term aims of the Chartered College of Teaching by providing backbone funding between 2021 and 2025. This demonstrates a genuine commitment to the work of the Chartered College.

In 2020 Paul Hamlyn Foundation helped the Chartered College of Teaching to support teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a free text messaging service connecting teachers to support their wellbeing during the 2020 lockdown. TeachTogether sent stories from teachers, evidence-based wellbeing advice and links to valuable activities every week.

The Foundation funded a literature review looking at effective approaches to blended teacher CPD and continues to fund our work in this field, conducting evaluation of the Teacher Development Fund, focussed on blended continuing professional development and learning research.

In 2019-20 the Foundation also enabled the Chartered College of Teaching to build its capacity to support expansion of CTeach provision.

Pears Foundation

Since 2019 Pears Foundation has shared a commitment to our vision and generously supported the Chartered College of Teaching through a strong and collaborative partnership, including core funding, professional development for Chartered College of Teaching employees, and physical space.

Pears Foundation and #iwill fund worked with the Chartered College of Teaching between 2019 and 2021 to develop and publish a special issue of the Impact journal on youth social action and character education. This was distributed to all schools in England and explored what can be achieved when children and young people are taught how to contribute to society and why their opinions matter.

In 2020 Pears Foundation also funded Teach Together, the teacher wellbeing text messaging prompt service.

Mission 44

Mission 44 is a charity working to build a fairer, more inclusive future for young people around the world. They invest in solutions that empower young people to overcome social injustice and succeed.

Project funders and partners

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Between 2022 and 2023 ACAMH is kindly funding a webinar series, focussed on pupil mental health with links to the RSHE curriculum.

Education Development Trust

Funding assessment design between 2022 and 2023.

National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers

NASBTT has funded classroom practice videos to support teachers and their mentors.

Previous funders and supporters

Arts Council England

In 2018 the Arts Council England provided funding for a scoping study to determine the range of support the Chartered College of Teaching could offer the membership in relation to cultural education.

Big Change

In 2020, Big Change provided funding for the Chartered College of Teaching to develop a digital platform, The Education Exchange, a free platform for teachers providing opportunities for discussion, reflection and sharing of the best practice worldwide, celebrating the knowledge of teachers and providing a space for them to share their insights and shape the future of teaching.

Department for Education

Between 2016 and 2020 the DfE provided start-up grant funding for the Chartered College of Teaching.

Between 2017 and 2019 the DfE funded:

– The pre-publication work, design, development and commission of articles for two editions of ‘The Profession’ publication for early career teachers.

– The design, management, production and hosting of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for school leaders on ‘Leadership of Technology use in Education’.

– An independent communications and marketing industry expert support project.

– A special issue of the Impact journal on education technology that was sent to 25,160 schools in England and all Chartered College members.

– A special research engagement issue of the Impact journal that was sent to 25,000 schools in England in January 2018, accompanied by two posters

Education Endowment Foundation 

Between 2019 and 2020 the EEF funded a one year pilot to test the delivery and the approach of the Early Career Framework to support its future roll-out.

Hoare Trustees (Ian Armitage and Joanna Cunningham)

In 2019 and 2020 the Hoare Trustees kindly funded two activities:

– Teach Together, a free text messaging service connecting teachers to support their wellbeing during the 2020 lockdown. TeachTogether sent stories from teachers, evidence-based wellbeing advice and links to valuable activities every week.

– The recruitment of specialist expertise to the Council of the Chartered College of Teaching (finance and membership).

Highlands College, Jersey

Funded a literature review.

Maths Anxiety Trust

Maths Anxiety Trust kindly donated to support the work of the Chartered College of Teaching.

Merchant Taylors’ Company

In 2018 the Merchant Taylors’ Company funded the development of a ‘Windows into the classroom’ video series to provide members with examples of excellent practice, informed by research, from different schools and settings around the country.

Montessori

In 2021/22 Montessori funded the development of our Early Childhood Hub, playing an essential role in strengthening the expertise of early years practitioners. It brings together a range of great articles, research and resources from people working across the Early Years sector on topics ranging from child development to professional learning.

A New Direction

A New Direction supported us with a review of materials.

Nuffield Foundation

Nuffield Foundation supported the organising and delivery of a summit on evidence-based practice.

Sheffield Hallam University Institute of Education

Sheffield Hallam University Institute of Education provided support in 2020 for the Chartered College of Teaching’s development of resources for Early Career teachers, the Early Career Hub, a site containing videos, articles, activities and links to external resources aligned to the new Early Career Framework and the Teacher Standards. It also provided initial sponsoring, supported STEM Learning and the Chartered pathway.

UCL Institute of Education

Between 2017 and 2020 UCL Institute of Education provided pro-bono office space to the Chartered College of Teaching.

UNESCO

UNESCO supported a literature review on preparing teachers effectively for diverse and digital classrooms.

Wellcome

The Wellcome Trust funded our CPD quality assurance work, an ambitious blueprint and model for the profession to assure the quality of teachers’ professional development through a system of accreditation. As well as this, Wellcome funded journal clubs, a research project that brought together science teachers from across the world to discuss research and how to implement it in their contexts.

Wellcome also supported The Science of Learning, an issue of our Impact journal. This was sent to all schools in the UK, with an exploration of the science of learning – how insights from neuroscience and cognitive psychology can support classroom practice, with sections on making learning stick, mindset and building a science of learning.